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From the prize-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness comes a trio of spellbinding novels - in 1 volume! — Rocannon's World. The intergalactic war would soon reach Fomalhaut II; Rocannon's ethnological survey team had been sent to prepare that backward, beautiful planet for protective entry into the League of All Worlds. They had already lea... more »rned much about Fomalhaut's diverse high-intelligence life forms - including the fact that at least two races were capable of partial telepathy: mind-speech. Unfortunately, there was no chance for further study. The enemy, bent on stealing a League ansible - the remarkable device which permitted instantaneous communication between worlds light years apart - destroyed the survey ship and its crew in a bold act of terrorism. Only Rocannon escaped. Stranded, heartsore, Rocannon was determined to avenge his friends' deaths and recover the vital ansible. And, as it turned out, the inhabitants of Fomalhaut II were more than willing to help him. All Rocannon had to do was pay the price...

Planet of Exile. All her life Rolery had heard peculiar talk about the "farborn," the "false-men," the other-worlders who had lived on her world for centuries. She hadn't believed the tales...until the first time she saw the aliens' city. It was disturbingly different from the winter shelter her own people were building nearby. Strangest of all was the long, wide causeway linking the city with what appeared to be a huge, black fortress. Silent, unearthly, that island of ebony stone was a place most true-humans would avoid. But that day, urged on by an alien voice that suddenly spoke in her mind, Rolery became the first of her people to enter the farborns' realm. She would not be the last.

City of Illusion. The forest people found the stranger wandering at the woods' edge - his mind blank, his odd, catlike eyes unseeing. They gave him a name, "Falk," and restored his health. But they could not fulfill the need that grew stronger in him every day. Only the Shing held the key to his true identity. The Shing, ruthless aliens who had destroyed the League of All Worlds and taken over interplanetary management wherever possible, were almost magnanimous in talking to Falk. They told him quite a lot; but it was what they did not tell him that worried Falk...for the fate of two worlds rested in his hands.« less